With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz
soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the
secret blood that links slave and master, explorer and native,
stranger and brother. In "Taboo" he examines the role of blacks in
Western history, and how these roles are portrayed in art and
literature. In taut, meticulously crafted three-line stanzas,
Rubens paints his wife looking longingly at a black servant; Aphra
Behn writes "Oroonoko" "as if she'd rehearsed it/for years in her
spleen"; and in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson is "still/at his
neo-classical desk/musing, but we know his mind/is brushing aside
abstractions/so his hands can touch flesh." "Taboo" is the powerful
first book in a new trilogy by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose
work never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.
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